smash

to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter:

He smashed the vase against the wall.

2.

to defeat, disappoint, or disillusion utterly.

3.

to hit or strike (someone or something) with force.

4.

to overthrow or destroy something considered as harmful:

They smashed the drug racket.

5.

to ruin financially:

The depression smashed him.

6.

Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis. to hit (a ball or shuttlecock) overhead or overhand with a hard downward motion, causing the shot to move very swiftly and to strike the ground or table usually at a sharp angle.

verb (used without object)

7.

to break to pieces from a violent blow or collision.

8.

to dash with a shattering or crushing force or with great violence; crash (usually followed by against, into, through, etc.).

9.

to become financially ruined or bankrupt (often followed by up).

10.

to flatten and compress the signatures of a book in a press before binding.

1725, "hard blow," from smash (v.). Meaning "broken-up condition" is from 1798; that of "failure, financial collapse" is from 1839. Tennis sense is from 1882. Meaning "great success" is from 1923 ("Variety" headline, Oct. 16, in reference to Broadway productions of "The Fool" and "The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly").